Landing Zone design: head in the clouds, keeping feet on the ground

The Public Cloud fascinates me. It gives off an image where everything is simple, where the problems related to the infrastructure are disappearing, giving a way to magic. The most impressive thing is that this promise is also a reality, it is possible and easy to build a new operationnal environment in five minutes.

Is that a good thing? Yes of course, it is a formidable vector of acceleration for innovation in many cases.

Is it always that simple? Unfortunately not, in the context of a company, it is necessary to have the control, to build an infrastructure that will be able to best support its activity, processes and organization. Magic can help us, not doing the work for us.

The magical vision we have of the Cloud and the very technical view we have of the infrastructure often make us forget the notion of service, which should be at the heart of the preoccupations of all the teams working for the company.

There is a work to do to ensure that the cloud infrastructure that is going to be built will meet the needs of the company and stay aligned with its strategic objectives. It is a governance task that must be carried out upstream and as part of a continuous improvement process. This responsibility must be identified and assumed by a structure in the…